The sites listed below are for Museums that have materials relating to Amerindian populations of the Caribbean, or which have had special exhibitions or public programs of relevance, and that have some information online. The list is not complete, and additions will be made with the passage of time. The addresses of pages internal to these sites sometimes change, so please investigate each one carefully to locate their Caribbean materials.

• Altos de Chavon–The Regional Museum of Archaeology (Dominican Republic): “the Altos de Chavon Cultural Center Foundation is a non-profit educational and cultural institution located in La Romana, Dominican Republic….The Regional Museum of Archaeology documents the island's rich pre-Columbian heritage and serves as a valuable information resource for students and visitors. Ritual and utilitarian objects, arranged by chronology and style, trace the evolution of indigenous cultures from the preceramic era to the time of the Taino Indians, the island's predominant civilization during the arrival of the Spanish conquerors….This extraordinary collection of more than 6,000 artifacts was discovered in the region where the Museum is now located, on the banks of the Chavon River”.

• American Museum of Natural History

• The Barbados Museum

• The British Museum

• Florida Museum of Natural History: Caribbean Archaeological Collection

• Grenada National Museum

• Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History—The Florida museum’s archaeology program has had ongoing projects focused on St. Augustine, Florida, since 1973, and in Hispaniola since 1979. The research sites and the collections that have been accumulated have served to provide a continuum of Spanish historical settlement in the Circum Caribbean region from 1492 until 1821.

• El Museo del Barrio

• El Museo del Barrio: an article briefly outlining the history and mission of the museum.

• Museum of the Dominican Man: an online gallery of artifacts pertaining to the Amerindian inhabitants of the Dominican Republic.

• National Archaeological/ Anthropological Museum of the Netherlands Antilles

• The New Old World—Antilles: Living Beyond the Myth—samples of a photographic exhibition hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, with a focus on Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and Trinidad.

• Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University

• Saint Maarten Museum: “Artifacts of Arawaks: displaying archaeological finds dating from 500 - 600 A.D. Among these objects you find tools, zemis, pottery fragments and shells. The Arawaks were Amerindians who originated from the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, and who roamed through the islands in their canoes called ‘pirogues’. See an example at the entrance of the museum….”

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

• Suriname Museum-Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo - Suriname

• Taino Museum

• The Walter Museum of Anthropology, Georgetown, Guyana: “The Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, the first museum of anthropology in the English-speaking Caribbean was founded in the year 1974 with the collections of Guyanese Archaeologist Dr. Denis Williams. In 1980 the ethnographic collections of Dr. Walter Roth, Mr. J.J. Quelch and Sir Everard im Thurn were transferred to the Walter Roth Museum from the Guyana Museum. The Museum was opened to the public in 1982. An ethnographic collection of the Waiwai was presented to this Museum in 1991 by Guyanese Cultural Anthropologist Dr. George P. Mentore. The Museum's collections also include excavated artifacts from all of the ten Administrative Regions of Guyana”.

• The White Marl Taino Midden and Museum, Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

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